Section A
[00:01.78]1. M: Excuse me,but I didn't hear clearly what you said.
[00:07.92]Did you say that we did not have to hand in our exam papers?
[00:11.83]W: No, I said that my teaching assistant would collect the papers while I'll grade them myself.
[00:17.55]Q: What did the woman say about the exam?
[00:20.22]2. W: There is an advertisement in the newspaper.
[00:23.88]It says there are all kinds of cheap apartment houses on sale.
[00:28.08]M:It sounds a good one, but our savings are nowhere near enough to buy a house.
[00:33.23]Q: What does the man mean?
[00:35.24]3. M: I'm terribly sorry I've carelessly broken Tom's treasured violin.
[00:40.36]Tom's going to kill me.
[00:42.08]W: Oh, God--I can see why you're upset.
[00:44.80]It can really be annoying when you damage someone's favourite thing.
[00:48.85]Q: What's the woman's attitude toward the man's carelessness?
[00:52.64]4. M: I'm sure I'll get a high score in the exam.
[00:56.14]W: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
[00:58.83]Q: What does the woman mean?
[01:00.79]5. W: What a wonderful opera it was.
[01:04.05]I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
[01:06.64]M: Frankly speaking, I dozed off after the first twenty minutes.
[01:10.66]Q: How did the man in the conversation feel about the opera?
[01:14.55]6. M: Hi, Mary, I have a message for you from Jack.
[01:19.12]He invites you to see an art exhibition.
[01:21.63]W: Thank you, Tom.
[01:22.86]You know,"Two's company,three's none."
[01:26.20]Q: What does the woman mean?
[01:28.22]7. W: You play very well.
[01:30.80]Did you have formal training on the accordion?
[01:33.54]M: I did want to become a player when I was a child
[01:36.18]but I just took lessons while never practise.
[01:39.34]I taught myself by copying other player.
[01:41.77]Q: What did the man do as a child?
[01:44.31]8. M: Good morning,I'm here to see Prof.Smith.
[01:47.81]W: Prof.Smith went to San Francisco last Wednesday for a conference
[01:52.46]and will be back on Monday night.
[01:54.78]If you like,you may come again on Tuesday morning.
[01:58.39]Q: When will Prof. Smith return?
[02:00.84]9. W: It's a pleasure to see you again.
[02:04.26]What are you doing these days?
[02:05.96]You are still teaching,aren't you?
[02:07.87]M: Yes, I am, and I'm counting the days until retirement.
[02:11.66]Q: What can we learn about the man?
[02:13.93]10. M:The latest word is that this school will soon be shut down.
[02:18.66]W: I'm not surprised.
[02:20.17]It just can't compete with more upto-date ones has less and less students.
[02:25.32]Q: Why is the school being closed down?
[02:28.06]Section B
[02:29.81]Passage One
[02:31.30]The potato is native to South America.
[02:34.20]It was probably first brought to England by Sir John Hawkins
[02:38.56]but attracted little interest.
[02:40.47]It was reintroduced by Drake in 1586.
[02:44.39]Sir Walter Raleigh first grew potatoes in Ireland.
[02:47.60]The potato was praised by Bacon and was served
[02:50.79]at the Royal table by 1619.
[02:53.77]Ever since then it has been an important item of Ritish died
[02:58.31]especially in Ireland
[02:59.85]during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was the main food of the Irish
[03:04.87]and there was starvation and famine when the crop failed
[03:08.37]as it did in the 1840
[03:10.67]Also in Ireland
[03:11.69]and illegal and very strong liquor called poteen is brewed from the potato.
[03:16.68]11. Who should be regarded as the first person to plant potatoes in Ireland?
[03:22.61]12. Which of the following is not true?
[03:26.03]13. According to the passage,what is considered an illegal act?
[03:31.25]Passage Two
[03:33.03]There is increasing scientific evidence that large cars cause more highway accidents than small car
[03:40.08]In the news recently was the story of a woman who died of a heart attack while driving her station wagon.
[03:46.61]The car was moving so fast that it went through the highway-dividing fench
[03:51.00]resulting in a collision in which five people died.
[03:55.08]Those unnecessary deaths are attributable in part to the woman's choice of a large automobile.
[04:01.87]A lighter and smaller car probably wouldn't have gone through the fence
[04:06.36]because the heavier the car
[04:08.14]the greater the force it will have in a collision.
[04:11.17]Furthermore,even if the lighter car had broken through the fence
[04:15.22]its remaining energy would have been much less
[04:18.38]and this would have reduced the chances of serious injury or death.
[04:22.50]Because of its small size
[04:24.46]it might have missed the other car completely.
[04:27.47]The present design of the oversized automobile is largely responsible not only for the increasing death
[04:33.68]toll on the highway but also for the rapid depletion of our resources of petroleum
[04:39.51]for the pollution of our environment
[04:41.97]for urban sprawl,and for the congestion and inconenience of our cities.
[04:47.35]14. What did the author want to tell us?
[04:50.82]15. In the author's opinion, what's the best way to reduce the chances of serious injury or death in highway accidents?
[05:00.67]16. According to the passage,which of the following is not the disadvantage of the oversized automobile?
[05:08.30]Passage Three
[05:09.47]For all its benefits,television's influence has been extremely harmful to the young.
[05:14.83]Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world
[05:21.38]that commercials lie in order to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless.
[05:26.82]They believe and want to imitate what they see.
[05:30.97]They do believe that they will make more friends if they use a certain soap
[05:34.99]or some other product.
[05:36.74]By the time they are out of high school
[05:38.94]most young people have watched about 15,000 hours of television
[05:44.32]and have seen about 18,000 killings or other acts of violence.
[05:49.07]How could they be choked to see the same in real life.
[05:52.26]All educators and psychologists agree that they "television generations"
[05:58.90]are more violent than their parents and grandparent
[06:02.42]It is certain that television has deeply transformed our lives and our society.
[06:07.26]It is certain that, along with its benefit
[06:10.18]it has brought enormous problem
[06:12.92]To those problems we must soon find a solution
[06:16.19]because--whether we like it or not--television is here to stay.
[06:21.02]17. What does the paragraph before this passage most probably discuss?
[06:27.29]18. What do we learn from the passage?
[06:31.08]19. How many days of television have most young people watched when they graduate from high school?
[06:38.03]20. What can be inferred from the passage? |